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Hassan Daoud was born Hassan Zebib in 1950 in Beirut to Shiites from South Lebanon. His family lived summers in Noumairieh and the remainder of the year in Beirut. He studied Arabic literature and served as a journalist in Beirut during the civil war. He is currently chief editor of Nawafez (Windows), the cultural supplement for Al Mustaqbal Daily in Beirut. He writes extensively on cultural and political matters for a number of Lebanese and Arab newspapers. Although he has published several novels and collections of short stories, very little of his work has been translated in complete form into English. The English translation of his most recent work, The Year of the Revolutionary Bread-Making Machine will be published in the fall of 2007.